The shocking pictures come from the animal park at Xiamen in Fujian, south-east China, where the public seem to delight in humiliating circus-style stunts and have no regard for animal cruelty. Conditions are poor, with big cats including lions, tigers and leopards and other large animals including bears kept in solitary confinement in tiny cages.

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From what I’ve seen of the way they treat animals in China, I shudder at the thought of ever being a prisoner there. Only a few steps from the Great Wall I remember seeing black bears at the bottom of 15 feet of vertical concrete. If you’ve got four legs in China, you suffer, then you get eaten.

The lion appears to lack both teeth and claws. At least it’s fat, even though it’s not clean. Neither of them are clean, and that horse’s hooves are worn right down from trotting on pavement. I’d like to think the concept of kindness to animals could be introduced without the carrot/stick of a profit motive, but it sure doesn’t look like it.

You mean like in the first text link on this page? The one that says, “George Stubbs A Lion Attacking a Horse” and links to http://artlife.blogspot.com/2007/05/this-is-modern-art.html? How is it that you did not notice that? I always link to the source, as a brief look at this or any other post would have shown you.

becca, they shouldn’t be jailed, they should have a lion jump on them and then be locked in a cage, every single day. And any place where they actually treat animals with respect, I have yet to see. This behaviour is sick.

On average 136 animals are treated this way.

and 4 die every year from the cruel treatment.

This, along with torture, prison and the death penalty originated in China.
People would pay to see these kind of acts, and that still happens today. People love seeing animals being tortured. We’re all talking about saving the people from torture, slavery, mistreatment, but have you ever thought about the other creatures God put on this planet?

97% of people will have answered no, and have a big argument that we are more important. That money is more important.

98% of people refuse to pass this message on, or can’t be bothered. be one of the 2% who do.

“God created everything to be respected, and up in heaven Him, the saints and the angels are weeping at our cruelty to fellow passengers to the grave. HAVE A CARE, FOR ANIMALS EVERYWHERE!!!”

Thank you for reading this all-inportant message, and hope you pass it on. Thank you.

I reached for the popcorn when you got challenged, but it petered out :-( I have to admit that I was not brave enough to click on the link to “the worst animal violence that i had see” – this image alone gave me pause.

I was watching Stephen Hawkings Into the Universe the other night and they were talking about finding aliens. Everyone seems so excited about find other life out there – we have it here and we treat it like this.

I don’t know why they couldn’t see that I’d linked to them. It surely must have shown up in their trackbacks. But I got challenged in that manner several times, by several similarly blind/dumb people, so now I always preface the quotation. Which is a waste, actually.